Twitter to Ramp Up Advertising Plan
Twitter is getting serious about its ad plan. The company plans to roll out advertising in an interesting way. Users will soon see ads in their Tweet stream from accounts they don’t follow. The plan is...
View ArticleGoogle Buying Zagat
If your first response to the news that Google was acquiring Zagat was, “Huh?” You’re not alone. And although it might seem that the two make strange bedfellows, analysts say the deal (details of...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Plan to Save Bing Might Change Internet Searches
Microsoft has a very large problem. Its search engine, Bing, loses $1 billion each quarter. Now the solution to this might mean a big change for the way users search for content. Or so Microsoft...
View ArticleWhat Google Wants You to Know About Antitrust
It’s not every company that provides spin on what a top executive says before he says it, but Google did just that on Wednesday morning, releasing a “guide” to the Senate Judiciary hearing later that...
View ArticleGoogle’s Biggest Challenges Internal, Says CEO
Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and the biggest threat facing Google is … well, Google itself, actually. That’s according to company co-founder and current CEO Larry Page. During a rare public...
View ArticleM.C. Hammer Introduces WireDoo
M.C. Hammer announced his latest venture at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week. The startup, a search engine called WireDoo, searches not just words but relations – searching “house” will...
View ArticleGoogle Debuts More Apps for Mobile Search
Google has just released a host of mobile apps designed to help consumers in their search for businesses and products. These new products will take consumers from search to locations—both real and...
View ArticleKickoffLabs: Sophisticated Landing Pages for Start-Ups
If you’re starting a new venture, chances are you know how important landing pages are. (A landing page is a targeted page, other than your home page, which brings users to the specific information or...
View ArticleMozilla and Microsoft Team Up for Firefox with Bing
Mozilla has been expanding its social network. The company has just announced a special release of Firefox with Bing search. This means that users can opt to make Bing their default search engine. Part...
View ArticleDead Google Products Pile Up
It looks like Google CEO Larry Page really is putting more wood behind fewer arrows. Google has discontinued Knol, the company’s attempt to recreate Wikipedia in its own ad-supported image, adding to a...
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